Should you had been interested by Bob Costas’ tackle the extensively ridiculed “Home of the Dragon” advert that aired on TBS throughout Sport 1 of the ALDS between the Yankees and Guardians on Tuesday, surprise no extra.
Throughout an look Thursday on “The Actually Massive Present” with Tony Rizzo and Aaron Goldhammer on 850 ESPN Cleveland, Costas eviscerated the now-infamous spot selling the “Sport of Thrones” prequel sequence when requested a common query about what has modified in broadcasting through the years.
“Right here’s what’s modified simply from a manufacturing standpoint — there’s much more stuff,” Costas mentioned. “The industrial imperatives are such that there’s extra drop-ins throughout video games together with a dragon swooping into Yankee Stadium in simulated type in Sport 1. And I didn’t even know what it was. They hand me this card and I’m like ‘What the hell is that this?’
“I learn it in as indifferent a type as I might, after which I see it with poor Lauren Shehadi, who's only a great one who does an incredible job on the MLB Community and for TBS. And he or she’s gotta do that factor — some simulated report. Now I gotta suppose how do I distance myself from this with out completely trashing it? So I mentioned one thing which I hope that cheap individuals understood was kinda like me rolling my eyes at the entire thing.”
Keep in mind that Costas was indirectly requested concerning the dragon spot — this was one thing he doubtless needed to get off his chest.
“If Vin Scully, the best of the good, was doing community baseball at this time, he couldn’t actually be Vin Scully,” Costas continued. “On these Dodger video games, they received out of his manner, which was the neatest factor to do, and so they let him be Vin Scully.
“Now you’ve received to type of navigate round a whole lot of stuff. I feel the nuts and bolts of it are nonetheless the identical, and my method to it's nonetheless the identical, however you’ve received to make sure concessions to what they lay of the land is.”
Sport 2 of the ALDS between the Yankees and Guardians will get underway Friday afternoon in The Bronx. The Yankees at the moment lead the sequence 1-0.
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